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The Secret Garden Party today announced that alongside Hercules and Love Affair and Foreign Beggars, US Hip Hop legends Public Enemy will headline the festival this summer. The Cambridgeshire festival is set to take place on 24 – 27 July, with an array of up and coming acts including Rae Morris, Deap Valley, Wolf Alice and Jagwar Ma. However, SGP…

The legendary Tom Jones is to headline the Friday main stage of Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (8th & 9th August 2014) for what is believed to be his first ever performance in the Highlands. And headlining the same stage on the Saturday night are the popular rock band Razorlight. “Sir Tom has long been a hero of mine and it…

The Hebridean Celtic Festival has been selected as one of the top 10 UK summer festivals by an influential publication for the fourth year running, alongside other AIF members Shambala, Womad, and Larmer Tree. HebCelt is again the only Scottish festival on the list compiled by world music magazine, Songlines. The four-day event, which will be held from 16-19 July…

Award-winning Hampshire based festival Blissfields today announced that amongst a host of new acts, the 2014 line up now includes Hercules And Love Affair, Chloe Howl, Tune-Yards, Dan Croll, Snakehips, Luke Sital Singh and Nick Mulvey. Sleigh Bells and festival favourites 2manyDJs are set to headline the event. Check out Blissfields here: Blissfields will take place on 4th & 5th…

LeeFest has confirmed its first acts for the 2014 festival at Highams Hill Farm, Sheepbarn Lane, Warlingham from 11 – 13 July, and among them are Scottish Indie band Frightened Rabbit who will headline LeeFest as one of only two shows in England this year, according to Virtual Festivals. Dan Le Sac vs Scoobius Pip will also be bringing their…

The Purple Guide to Health, Safety and Welfare at music and other events relaunched this week, offering an in-depth guide to running safer music events. First published in 1992 by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) in consultation with the industry, the guide is an invaluable guide to Health and Safety for large scale events organisers from the UK and…

An interesting article in Noisey/Vice about the changes in festival culture. Are the independents the ones keeping it real? Has Reading and Leeds Festival forgotten what it means to choose creative and exciting acts? “With the exception of Glastonbury and the slick move of booking OutKast at Bestival, nobody seems to get truly excited about the Great British music festival…

Norman Baker (The Minister of State for Crime Prevention) today informed Parliament of the publication of a public consultation to change the way fees are set under the Licensing Act 2003. The proposal is to introduce locally-set full cost recovery by Licensing Authorities from Licensed events. The government has indicated it may set a cap on these fees. Read the…

For all those that attended the Green Events & Innovations Conference on Thursday (and for those that didn’t), here’s a handy overview of the day… [View the story “Green Events & Innovations Conference 2014″ on Storify]